ORIGINAL PAPER Metachronal swimming in Antarctic krill: gait kinematics and system design

• Main Authors: R. King, J. Yen, D. W. Murphy, D. R. Webster, S. Kawaguchi
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Atkinson; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.353.6935; http://www.biology.gatech.edu/people/pdf/yen/pdfs/Murphy et al 2011.pdf

Abstract Metachronal swimming, in which adjacent appendages stroke in sequence, is widespread among crustaceans inhabiting the transitional flow realm in which both viscosity and inertia effects are important. However, the design and operation of this propulsion system in response to various hydrody...